What Was Your First Mac

What was your first Mac and your experience with it?
(Apple Is, IIs, and Lisas are fair game as well!)

My First Macintosh: That original mac...I think...at 6 years old. I remember upgrading it with my dad to 1MB of RAM. I didn't know that at the time, but I learned later that when you opened it up that is what you did to it.

Then, I remember getting a Performa something or other, and that didn't have a SCSI hard drive that was always on the fritz. And that CD drive thing was neat. I remember that this computer had some sort of user-chooser thing. (It was a hand-me-down)

Then to a Power Mac 8100 I think. Came from dad's office, and this was my first experience with OS 8. However, it soon had some trouble and a Power Computing Power Tower 2-somethingith. EveryMac.com found the one that I belive to be it-- the PowerTower 225. That computer lasted years, and was eventually upgraded to 8.6. It still runs today as a sort of 'guest' computer.

What was your first Mac and your experience with it?
(Apple Is, IIs, and Lisas are fair game as well!)

My First Macintosh: That original mac...I think...at 6 years old. I remember upgrading it with my dad to 1MB of RAM. I didn't know that at the time, but I learned later that when you opened it up that is what you did to it.

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I have to admit to being a relative newcomer to Apple. My first Mac was a Performa 575 (forgive me - I didn't know any better!). It came with 4MB on the mother board and an extra 1MB in the slot. I remember torturing myself over a RAM upgrade, and finally deciding to go for it and replace the 1MB with 16. Man, with 20MB I thought I had all the memory I'd ever need!

I quickly replaced the Performa with a 7200/120, followed by a Beige G3/266, then the 800 G4 iMac. Now I've got my 1.33 PB, and I'm set for a year or two...maybe.

power pc 6100 from montgomery ward The year was 1994 and it was a bright summer day, i was seven and all was well... It was also the first personal computer I ever used. Carmen Sandiego, Zoombini's, oregon trail 2 (best one btw), full throttle, even math blaster were some of the first software proggy's i used.

At 17, I purchased my LC575, which is still running today, not that I use it much. It was a excellent computer for what i did with it, which was just Word Processing (the Internet was expensive OK) and a little (light gaming). It still has all of the original components, right down to the original 20 megs of ram it came with. Apple made an excellent computer in that, and a loyal Mac user in Me!

My first Mac as a family computer was my aunt's old Macintosh II in 1995 when I was eleven. The first Mac I personally owned was the day I turned eighteen, a 700 MHz iBook G3. I'm currently using a 1 GHz PowerBook 12".

What was your first Mac and your experience with it?
(Apple Is, IIs, and Lisas are fair game as well!)

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The original Mac, in all its 128K, one-floppy-drive, nine-inch-B&W-display glory. Bought it July 11, 1984, along with an external disk drive and an ImageWriter printer. Using that Mac -- as well as a "Mac XL" (rebadged Lisa) connected to the original Apple LaserWriter at work -- helped me get through my first of three years as a junior college teacher and, more importantly for the long term, learn enough about on-screen layout that I eventually was able to get into marketing/advertising work at the major-corporation level.

A Performa 6290CD, bought in June of 1996. I thought it was great, up until I bought an iMac in 2001. People may gripe about Apple now, but if you bought a Performa in the mid-90s, back when everyone thought that the company was dying, then you can't help but think that anything they come out with now just kicks butt.

And the darn thing is still running. Not impressively or very productively, but it still boots up, running System8.6 with the memory maxed out at 64MB and its itty bitty 1GB hard drive (which I couldn't imagine ever filling up at the time).

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